The country's increasingly multicultural audiences are becoming frustrated with seeing films with all-white casts. They are demanding more projects with diverse casts and themes, and Hollywood producers are going to have to adjust if they hope to keep pace with popular tastes.

The next chief executive of Steven Spielberg's film company, DreamWorks Studios, is coming from the TV industry.
Departing Turner Broadcasting executive Michael Wright will join the film studio at the beginning of next year. He will succeed CEO and Co-...

Youku Tudou, China's leading online video platform, is expanding into financing and screening of original content. Last year, it backed Andy Lau actioner "Firestorm," while this month it is launching 20 new TV series. On Aug. 28, it announced the...

To the editor: The otherwise fine article on the debate about film tax rebates perpetuates one important misconception about the situation in California. ("Are film tax credits cost effective?," Aug. 30)
The legislative analyst's office did indeed...

Senate President Pro Tem elect Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) sought to assure Hollywood on Wednesday that he was committed to expanding California's film and TV tax credit program.
On Tuesday, De León had alarmed many of his constituents in the...

Charlie Crist, the former Republican governor seeking the Democratic nomination to run for his old job, visited the Sun Sentinel on Tuesday, where he was interviewed by editorial writers and reporters.
As he has all through the campaign, Crist focused on Republican Gov. Rick Scott, ignoring Nan Rich, his opponent in the Democratic primary, except when he was directly questioned about her.
Crist said, as he has many times before, that the reason he didn’t agree to debate Rich before the Aug....

A group of Boy Scouts huddled behind a Humvee on a quiet residential street.
They had just returned from a camping trip to find that their suburban community had been overtaken — by the walking dead.
As they quietly crossed the street into one of the Scouts' houses, a horde of zombies wandering the streets heard the noise and rushed toward them.
The nighttime scene for the upcoming Paramount Pictures movie "Scouts vs. Zombies" recently came to life in the Happy Valley neighborhood of Newhall,...

Nina LaCour's new novel, "Everything Leads to You," is a modern Los Angeles love story in which friendship and attraction cross lines of class, ethnicity and sexuality and where young people find real pleasure, drama and creative possibilities in work.
LaCour has a knack for capturing the unique intensity of teenage characters discovering love, sex and intense friendship for the first time while also giving them talents and interests that make moving into adulthood look cool. Her last novel, "The...

Seeing Gong Li on the Croisette for Zhang Yimou's "Coming Home" was a reminder of the last time she trod the carpet at Cannes for a Zhang film -- in 1995 for "Shanghai Triad." And while that wasn't so long ago, it seems like eons considering the great leap forward made by the Chinese film industry ever since.
"Shanghai Triad" was an early French-Chinese co-production, but it was an exception. This year, Cannes has been full of signs that such cooperation is becoming more normal, and that the Chinese...

The Cannes Film Festival has always provided the perfect stage to make propitious announcements given the insatiable appetite of the world press that gathers in the South of France each year for the celebrated event. But even Cannes veterans were surprised in May 2008 when giant Reliance Entertainment of India trumpeted that it would make a significant investment in the entertainment industry, and that Hollywood would be a key beneficiary.
Flanked by a phalanx of publicists and powerful agents from CAA,...

CANNES -- The Russian Pavilion in Cannes kicked off its program of activities Thursday with a show of support for movie biz co-operation between Ukraine and Russia.
The program is organized by Russian film industry support agency Roskino, which celebrates its 90th anniversary this year. Its director general, Katya Mtsitouridze, expressed her faith in the ability of cinema to build bridges. "Even though the geopolitical conditions are not very easy, we think and hope that culture and cinema is the best...